MICHÈLE LAMONT Department of Sociology 33 Kirkland Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 510 William James Hall Phone: (617) 496-0645 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (617) 496-5794 Webpage : https://scholar.harvard.edu/lamont PERSONAL INFORMATION: Citizenship: Canadian and American EDUCATION: PhD Sociology, Université de Paris, 1983 DEA Sociology, Université de Paris, 1979 MA Political Science, Ottawa University, 1979 BA Political Science, Ottawa University, 1978 AREAS OF RESEARCH: Cultural Sociology Higher Education Inequality Racism and Stigma Race and Immigration Sociology of Knowledge Comparative Sociology Qualitative Methods Social Change Sociological Theory PRIMARY ACADEMIC POSITIONS: 2016-present: Affiliated Faculty, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University 2016-present: Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto 2006-present: Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University 2005-present: Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University 2003-present: Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University 2015-2021: Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University 2002-2019: Project Co-director, Successful Societies Program (with Peter A. Hall, Harvard University), Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research 2014: Acting Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University 2009-2010: Senior Advisor on Faculty Development and Diversity, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University 2004-2010: Director, European Inequality Network, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 2000-2003: Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University 1993-2000: Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Sociology, Princeton University 1987-1993: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University 1985-1987: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin 1983-1985: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Stanford University 1 AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORARY POSITIONS: 2021: Breakthroughs in Social Sciences and Humanities Award, Falling Walls Foundation 2020: Honorary Doctorate, University of Warwick Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala 2019-2021: Fellow, Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program ($200,000) 2019-2020: Residential Fellowship, Russell Sage Foundation 2019: Elected Corresponding Fellow, The British Academy 2017: Erasmus Prize, The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation (€150,000) Honorary Doctorate, University of Ottawa Honorary Doctorate, Université de Bordeaux Honorary Doctorate, University of Amsterdam 2016-2017: 108th President, American Sociological Association (President-elect: 2015-16; Past-president, 2017- 2018) 2015: Elected Member, Royal Society of Canada 2014-2015: Chair, Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility, American Sociological Association 2014: Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Gouvernement Français Gutenberg Research Award, Johannes Gutenberg University 2010: Master Mentor Award, Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Harvard Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, Graduate Students Association, Harvard 2009: Winner, “The Next Big Question Competition,” Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies, Ottawa 2006-2009: Chair, Council for European Studies 2005-2008: Elected Member, Council of the American Sociological Association 2006-2007: Matina Horner Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2004-2006: Member, National Research Council Committee on Assessing Behavioral and Social Science Research on Aging 2003-2004: Chair, Theory Section, American Sociological Association 2002-2003: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, grant no. 29800639) 2001: C. Wright Mills Prize of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for The Dignity of Working Men Mattei Dogan Award for the Best Comparativist Book from the Society for Comparative Research for The Dignity of Working Men 2000: Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics of the Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, The Dignity of Working Men 1998: Elected Member, Society for Comparative Research 1997: Visiting Scholar, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study 1996-2002: Member, Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows 1996-2001: Elected Member of Steering Committee, Council for European Studies 1996-1997: Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, (declined) 2 1996: Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation Elected Member, Sociological Research Association 1995: Le Monde Choice List, La morale et l’argent. La culture des cadres en France et aux Etats-Unis 1994-1995: Chair, Culture Section, American Sociological Association 1993: C. Wright Mills Prize Finalist, Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class 1992-1993: Fellow, German Marshall Funds of the United States 1982-1984: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Québec Government 1980-1982: Ph.D. Fellowship, Québec Government 1978-1982: Boursier du Gouvernement français SCIENTIFIC BOARD MEMBERSHIP (LAST TEN YEARS): 2018-present: Member, Board of Directors, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Member of Foundation Board, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland 2016-present: Member, Scientific Advisory Board at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany Member, Advisory Board, Nordic Centre for Research on Gender Equality in Research and Innovation (NORDICORE) 2016-2021: Member, Advisory Council for the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) 2009-2015: Member, Advisory Board, Fellowship Program, Open Society Foundation 2009-2013: Member, Advisory Board, Réseau français d’Instituts d’études avancées 2010-2012: Member, Haut conseil de la science et de la technologie, French Government 2008-2012: Member, International Scientific Advisory Board, Sciences Po, Paris EXTERNAL GRANTS: 2018-2019: “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Becoming Part of the City: Place-Belonging in Urbanizing China” with Amy Tsang, NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant program ($11,983) 2002-2019: “Successful Societies Program.” Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Program co-director (app $1,000,000 a year) 2014-2016: “Cultures of Health.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($25,000) 2013-2016: “The Fukushima Disaster and the Cultural Politics of Nuclear Power in the United States and Japan.” Science and Technology program, National Science Foundation, with Kyoko Sato and Sheila Jasanoff ($175,686) 2012-2014: “Qualitative Data Repository.” National Science Foundation, with Colin Elman, Diana Kapiszewski, Howard Turtle, and Lisa Wedeen, Syracuse University ($599,822) 2010-2011: “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Low Income Youth and Perceptions of Mortality.” National Science Foundation, with Nathan Fosse, Harvard University ($8,365) 2009-2011: “Destigmatization Strategies among Ethnic Groups in Israel.” United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation, with Nissim Mizrachi and Hanna Herzog ($52,000) 2009-2010: “Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multilevel Study of Symbolic Boundaries towards Muslims, 2007- 2008.” National Science Foundation, with Christopher Bail, Harvard University ($10,000) 2007-2010: “African-American Responses to Racism and Discrimination.” National Science Foundation ($209,985) 3 2007-2009: “Fostering Successful Interdisciplinarity through Shared Cognitive Platforms.” Canadian Institute for Advanced Research ($250,000) “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Hiring and Inequality in High Prestige Professions.” National Science Foundation, with Lauren Rivera, Harvard University ($7,500) 2008: “Exploring Culture and Poverty.” Ford Foundation, with David Harding and Mario Luis Small ($25,000) 2006-2007: “Knowledge Making, Use, and Evaluation in the Social Sciences.” Russell Sage Foundation, with Charles Camic and Neil Gross ($35,000) 2005-2006: “Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Analysis.” National Science Foundation ($52,122) 2005: “The Social Study of the Social Sciences and the Humanities.” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, exploratory seminar, with Charles Camic and Neil Gross ($12,000) 2004-2005: “Negotiating Social Identities in an Elite Independent High School.” National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, with Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Harvard University ($7,490) 2002-2003: “Architects and the Puzzle of State Socialist Modernization: Architectural Discourse in Hungary and East Germany after the Second World War.” National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, with Virag Molnar, Princeton University ($4,500) “Explaining Changes in Criminal Justice and Social Welfare Policies in the American States, 1967- 1985.” National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, with Joshua Guetzkow, Princeton University ($7,500) 2001-2003: “Categories and Criteria of Evaluation of Research Proposals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.” National Science Foundation ($114,575) 1998-1999: “Defining Sexual Harassment in France and the United States.” National Science Foundation, Dissertation improvement